[MPlayer-users] lowres and h264

[Nico Sabbi]

Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Sean Zimmermann <svz90 <at> pipeline.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I then tried using lavdopts lowres=1. The file played at the correctly without
>>any speed problems and took up considerably less cpu power. However, mplayer
>>was only playing the upper-left corner of the video (instead of scaling the
>>movie down, it cropped it). Is this normal, something I incorrectly configured,
>>or a bug? I tried the lowres option with a normal divx/avi file and it scaled
>>the file down correctly. I am using MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.3-DFSG-free on a system
>>running Debian testing on ppc.
> 
> 
> Apart from "Always test latest svn":
> Yes, that's the way lowres=1 works for h264.

this means that lowres doesn't work with H264, that is no news
(I remember reading in a changelog that lowres works only with certain
H264 streams)